...they do not purfue it with a defire to> overtake and embrace it. In this fenfe John lays, ** He that is born of God doth not commit fin, for his feed remaineth...him, and he cannot fin, becaufe he is born of God." There is in him a principle which oppofes fin. He does not commit or practife fin as a fervant of it...

...they do not purfue it with a defire to overtake and embrace it. In this fenfe John lays, " He that is born of God doth not commit fin, for his feed remaineth in him, and he cannot fin, beeaufe he is born of God." There is in him a principle which oppofes fin. He does not commit or practife...

...or of that true Jaith by which he is fo born, this faith being a divine production. For proof, fee 1 John iii. 9, " Whofoever is born of God doth not commit fin." Here, no doubt a human being may be intended ; again, fee chap. v. 4, " For -wbatso. ever is born of...

...been judged, that the error, which I am combating, derives fupport from the words of St. John, that " whofoever is born of God " doth not commit fin, for his feed remaineth " in him, and he cannot commit fin, becaufe " he is born of God c ." Whence it is contended, that as baptifmal regeneration...

...been judged, that the error, which I am combating, derives fupport from the words of St. John, that " whofoever is born of God '•*' doth not commit fin, for his feed reraaineth •" in him ; and he cannot commit fin, bccuule he is bofn of Godc." Whence it is conended,...

...alone that the Apoftle writes when he declares that " whofoever is born of God doth not commit fm ; for his feed remaineth in him : and he cannot fin, becaufe he is born of God " (1 John iii. 9). It is of fuch St. Paul fpeaks when he fays, " Neither circumcifion availeth anything,...

...man or the lady ofjifi within him. And in the fame fenfe St. John fays, " He that is born of God dotk not commit fin, for his feed remaineth in him, and he cannot Лп, becaufe he is born of God " But if the new principle called tin ne-w man or the new creature...